Sports Quotes - Page 38

• Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

  Billie Jean King

  Men, Attention, Arena

  12 Copy quote

• It has changed, quite a lot. It is very different now, there are quicker men, they are taller, stronger, have great stamina. The balls have also become faster. Tennis has now become a power sport. There is more depth in the game, as well, there are many more players than there used to be. The entire character of the game has changed.

  Bjorn Borg

  Character, Player, Men

  13 Copy quote

• Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

  Bjorn Borg

  Games, Long, Interesting

  14 Copy quote

• Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field-to enhance their physical appearance. I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

  Bo Jackson

  Running, People, Training

  11 Copy quote

• But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

  Bob Cousy

  Opportunity, Ideas, Fairness

  5 Copy quote

• Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.

  Bob Cousy

  Years, Lucky, World

  Interview with Clark Booth, magazine.holycross.edu. 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

  Bob Cousy

  Heart, Ghetto, Islands

  "One-On-One With Bob Cousy". Interview with Clark Booth, www.goholycross.com. December 19, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

  Bob Uecker

  Thirds, Coaches

  10 Copy quote

• For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Spring, Training, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Opportunity, World, Baltimore

  7 Copy quote

• I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Feelings, Might, Situation

  6 Copy quote

• I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Swings, Bats, Sheffield

  52 Copy quote

• Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Baseball, Stars

  6 Copy quote

• This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

  Bobby Bonilla

  Winning, World, Want

  7 Copy quote

• We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Guy, Pitching, Performances

  7 Copy quote

• We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Latin, Pressure, Counterparts

  Bobby Bonilla during MLB World Series: Indians v Marlins Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. October 17, 1997.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

  Bobby Bowden

  Nfl, Courses, Has Beens

  4 Copy quote

• He who gets the best players usually wins.

  Bobby Bowden

  Winning, Player, Nfl

  14 Copy quote

• All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

  Bobby Hull

  Player, Games, People

  4 Copy quote

• I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

  Bobby Hull

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  13 Copy quote

• But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Thinking, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

  Bode Miller

  Mistake, Winning, Race

  7 Copy quote

• My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

  Bode Miller

  Hurt, Years, Goal

  9 Copy quote

• When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

  Bode Miller

  Mistake, Easier, Skis

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

  Bonnie Blair

  Thinking, People, Family And Friends

  6 Copy quote